This Week in Music Sales: Lil Wayne Debuts Atop Digital Songs Chart, Jay-Z and Kanye West Top Billboard 200 Again

"Watch the Throne" continues at No. 1 with 177,000 sold for the week.

It's a quiet week in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, where Jay-Z & Kanye West's Watch the Throne holds at No. 1 for a second frame with 177,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan (down 59 percent), and just two albums bow in the region. Cumulative sales for Throne now stand at 613,000.

Unlike last week, where digital sales made up the lion's share of the opening week for Throne (74 percent of its overall 436,000 start), this week, digital purchases comprised 35 percent of its sales. Not surprising, since its bow was powered mostly by digital sales. It was exclusively available through iTunes from Aug. 8-11 before going on sale at all digital and physical retailers on Friday, Aug. 12. Thus, this week reflects its first full chart week's worth of physical and digital sales combined.

Eli Young Band's Life at Best bows at No. 6 with 35,000 -- earning the act its first top 10 and best sales week yet. Its last full-length set, 2008's Jet Black & Jealous, debuted and peaked at No. 30 with a then-best sales week of 16,000.

Two steps below Life at Best is the top 10's second new arrival, Blue October's Any Man in America at No. 8 with 27,000. It's the band's first top 10 and first studio set released on its own Up Down label. Its last effort, 2009's Approaching Normal, released on former label Universal Motown, started at No. 13 with 37,000.

Things are spicier on the Digital Songs chart, where Lil Wayne's "She Will" (featuring Drake) becomes the fourth song to debut at No. 1 this year, shifting 255,000 downloads. It's the largest sales week for a single since LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" (featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock) spent its first frame at No. 1 on the July 16 tally. "She Will" is the latest preview single from Wayne's Tha Carter IV, which drops at midnight on Sunday, Aug. 28.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Aug. 21) totaled 5.4 million units, down 10 percent compared with the sum last week (6 million) and up 5 percent compared with the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.1 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 194.8 million, up 2 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (190.2 million). It is the 13th week in a row where year-to-date album volume is greater than the same time in the prior year.

Digital track sales this past week totaled 23.1 million downloads, up 1 percent compared with last week (22.8 million) and up 14 percent stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (20.3 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 823.5 million, up 11 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (742.5 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when: Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" debuted at No. 1 with 192,000 while Fantasia's "Back to Me" arrived in the runner-up slot with 117,000.